Florida Gov. Scott refuses to ban guns during Republican convention

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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/05/02/florida-gov-scott-refuses-to-ban-guns-during-republican-convention/

TAMPA, Fla. –  Gov. Rick Scott has refused a request to prohibit the carrying of guns in downtown Tampa during the Republican National Convention this summer.

Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn had written to Scott asking for an executive order that would override state and federal laws allowing people with concealed weapons permits to carry firearms. He and other officials are worried about people toting guns in such a politically charged atmosphere.

But in a letter dated Tuesday, Scott said banning guns in all of downtown would infringe on citizens' constitutionally protected rights to legally arm themselves.

Scott wrote that "it is unclear how disarming law-abiding citizens would better protect them from the dangers and threats posed by those who would flout the law."

And someone gets it right!
Good for you Sir. Good for us.

[PegLeg45]

Scott wrote that "it is unclear how disarming law-abiding citizens would better protect them from the dangers and threats posed by those who would flout the law."

I like that......

[twyacht]

I think this was posted here before in the Politics section, but the Charlotte-Mecklenburg (host of the DNC convention) anti's, are also trying to get LAWFUL gun owners "temporarily banned" from carrying outside the Convention Center....

The CC in Charlotte, as posted during the NRA Conv. of 2010, is City owned, therefore NOT inside, but outside is Okee-Dokee...

and guess what?,....NC is also an open carry state, and they can't get that blocked either.....

[rojawe]

The Left wing loooooons will do something to make gun owners look bad.

[twyacht]

The Left wing loooooons will do something to make gun owners look bad.

Yet the thugs, OWS crowd if hell bent on violence, proceed with no restrictions.....to an unarmed civilian law abiding populace.,

Kinda dumb when you think about it....

"How long would the Nazis have kept it up...if every Jew they came after had met them with a gun in his hand?"
Walter Mathau - Fail Safe - 1964

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[tombogan03884]

Yet the thugs, OWS crowd if hell bent on violence, proceed with no restrictions.....to an unarmed civilian law abiding populace.,

Kinda dumb when you think about it....

"How long would the Nazis have kept it up...if every Jew they came after had met them with a gun in his hand?"
Walter Mathau - Fail Safe - 1964

It's worth noting that the Jews of the Warsaw ghetto held out longer than either Poland or France, and they started with less than a dozen mixed guns and about 100 rounds.